“It’s a very moving, touching original story,” he says. “It’s very rare to find movies that, on the one hand, are personal stories about human beings interacting, but on the scale necessary to be a motion picture as opposed to a piece for television.”

“Like Susanne’s work, their movies tend to have a similar aesthetic… handheld, a little rougher, grittier and very distinctive…not as conventional as some equivalent moviemaking in this country and my native England,”Sam MendesBier que buscava o argumento ideal para fazer a sua iniciação no cinema americano, ficou profundamente agradada com o script de Loeb e deixou-se envolver pela trama psicológica de duas pessoas atingidas pelo drama da perda. “I’m always interested in what happens to people in extreme situations. I felt this story was familiar, but at the same time it made me curious…because it was about something that really could happen,” she says. “And I also loved the idea of working with Sam Mendes, which I thought would be stimulating and a lot of fun.”Susanne Bier

“This is not a message movie. I hate message movies. But I do like stories with content, and I do like stories which, though they appear to be deceptively simple, stay with you after you’ve seen them and spark discussion.”